“The aggressive journalism that I long for, and that the paper owes both its readers and its own self-respect, would reveal not just the tactics of those who promoted the W.M.D. stories, but how The Times itself was used to further their cunning campaign.”

Apparently the person supposedly representiung us at the Times is a complete idiot, else a tool of the left-wing Times itself. When even the so-called reader-rep… The guy whose job it is, supposedly to call out the Times when it gets out of line, … when such a person assumes a leftist tilt is the way things ought to be, it’s clear that the NYT is a totally lost cause…. They will never employ anyone rooted in reality.

[1] In column footnoted that “The public editor is the readers’ representative.”… : http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/weekinreview/30bott.html?ei=5006&en=6e9a56f1616e00dc&ex=1086494400&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print&position=